From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishwheel somebody/something ↔ in/out phrasal verb informalSHOW/LET somebody SEE somethingto publicly produce someone or something and use them to help you achieve something Then the prosecution wheeled in a surprise witness. The government wheeled out the same old arguments to support its election campaign. → wheel→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
wheel in/out• Then he wheeled his wife out.• Kath snapped instructions to everyone, and Amy wheeled Mr Thompson out and took him to the interview-room.• The wheels started turning in his head.• Many times when we were set up in our wagon wheels out in the bush somewhere, we would receive mortar fire.• The ride was rough, the wheel jerking out of my grip.• Eleanor Shergold was at the wheel with Snappy in the back.• They wheeled us on in the background like a couple of fossils.• But were the large hydraulic wheels then in use capable of working powerful enough pumps, or relays of pumps? 